{"id":237,"date":"2010-07-25T23:26:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T23:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/?p=237"},"modified":"2010-07-26T00:38:11","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T00:38:11","slug":"internet-satirists-create-hoax-news-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/25\/internet-satirists-create-hoax-news-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet satirists create hoax news story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students yesterday produced a fake news item about the recent burqa banning debacle. The twenty year old at the centre of the shocking parody seemed to be showing a gross lack of respect for all parties concerned. News of the blog post went straight to the PM and reverberations have since been felt in the UN and NATO.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a meeting set up to debate the full meaning of the piece, David Cameron spoke of being troubled by the author&#8217;s &#8216;deep irony&#8217;. This, mixed with an ill-considered liberal viewpoint, made the stinging criticisms in the article particularly potent.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We just wanted to really get to the heart of the matter by exposing the idiocy of the media storm&#8217; &#8211; Jon, 23. Equivalent French students had responded to a similar debate in earnest. &#8216;That&#8217;s just not the way we do things in England, we like to avoid embarrassment by applying irony so liberally the reader gets lost in a nonsensical whirlwind&#8217;. Ambitious.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting live from the internet,<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\" border=\"0px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/images\/signature.png\" width=\"195\" height=\"123\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students yesterday produced a fake news item about the recent burqa banning debacle. The twenty year old at the centre of the shocking parody seemed to be showing a gross lack of respect for all parties concerned. News of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/25\/internet-satirists-create-hoax-news-story\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[48,18,19],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-searing-political-satire","tag-david-cameron","tag-politics","tag-satire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphshirley.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}